Source: The Independent
Data on the conflict in Syria - UNHCR
Analysis on Syrian Refugee Settlement Clinic Locations with R
Data source: World Development Indicators
Social index - Proportion of social benefits recipients in Berlin
Source: Tagesspiegel
… is relevant to get an overview of current developments
… is relevant to understand circumstances.
Source: Eric Fischer
Map Of Touristiness
Tracking Taxis Across Manhattan
Source: Touristiness
Based on tourist pictures uploaded on panoramio
Blue points on the map are pictures taken by locals (people who have taken pictures in this city dated over a range of a month or more).
Red points are pictures taken by tourists (people who seem to be a local of a different city and who took pictures in this city for less than a month).
Yellow points are pictures where it can’t be determined whether or not the photographer was a tourist (because they haven’t taken pictures anywhere for over a month).
Source: The New York Times
The target is to visualize social aspects in maps.
More examples
I want to….
Every participant should present his/her own maps.
Source: Website with city maps
Source: orangesmile
Source: Urban day
link1 <- paste(graph.path,"MannheimMap.jpg",sep="")
# http://www.heimatundwelt.de/kartenansicht.xtp?artId=978-3-14-100260-7&stichwort=Quadrate&fs=1
link1 <- paste(graph.path,"GESISMannheim.png",sep="")
Five departments - Survey Design and Methodology
Monitoring Society and Social Change
Data Archive for the Social Sciences
Computational Social Science
Knowledge Technologies for the Social Sciences
GESIS is:
Infrastructure Services for social sciences
over 250 employees at three sites (Mannheim, Cologne)
GESIS offers:
Consulting for research projects in all phases
Research based services
Consulting and research on …
R is the leading tool for statistics, data analysis, and machine learning. It is more than a statistical package; itÂ’s a programming language, so you can create your own objects, functions, and packages.
A big number of (very specific) packages:
R can be used as geographic information systems (GIS)
R and qgis
Virgilio Gómez-Rubio - Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R
Because it is possible to create nice graphics:
https://github.com/Japhilko/GeoData
If you are interested in what is behind the scenes:
Thomas Girke - Programming in R
Use Reference cards, plot them and have them next to your computer
I will try to keep it simple and provide lots of resources.
Click here to download R for Windows.
R for other platforms (Linux and Mac OS) is available under:
Source: R-programming